Advice needed re: internet scams

[China Man]

Hi again All from China (Taiwan) Man

I need somebody's advice regarding an internet scam that has been going around with my company's name on it. An individual by the name of "Chow Lee" or "Young Lee" has been sending mass emails out to people stating that he (or they) represent San Wu Rubber Mfg Co Ltd., and that San Wu Rubber (SWR) is looking for a "payment officer" or "sales representative" located outside of Taiwan. The rest of the e-mail is your typical scam; company wants to pay less taxes, therefore said company will forward you a few money orders, keep 10%, and take the other 90% to your local western union where you will get SCAMMED. Anyway, it's awful to see how many individuals there actually are in the US that are still falling for these types of scams. Since the fact that these emails are being sent has been brought to my attention, I have added an addendum to my company's website stating that all these e-mails are hoaxes, as well as the job postings on hotjobs.com.

However, as usual, the amount of bright light bulbs in the USA aren't as many as you think I get over 15 e-mails per day in my mailbox either saying they have gotten this e-mail, or asking me what they should do since they have already passed all their personal information onto this individual. (without doing research on the company, or checking their website??? )

To make a long story short, a few individuals have contacted me to inform me that they have received a package via UPS from this "chow lee". Inside the package are money orders. All these packages have been delivered via UPS next day air to a few people in different states, but all come from the same location.... if you want to know where you can ask.

***now comes to the question***

What do I do? Do I fly out to where the "home address" is, and notify their local police dept? Or do I have to notify somebody else? What steps do I have to take?

Thanks in advance to everybody!!!

Here's an example of an e-mail received by somebody who thinks money is falling off trees.....notice the excitemail address, poor grammar, incorrect spelling .... yadda yadda... amazing how people fall for this kind of junk...

-----Original Message-----
From: San Wu Rubber Mfg Ltd [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 08 November 2006 13:05
To: stupid fooker@ i'm gonna lose all my money . com (deleted to protect the stupid)
Subject: Job Offer Urgent Response!!
San wu Rubber Mfg. Co., Ltd.
No.106, Sec.2 Chang Mei Rd., Homei,
50801 Changhwa, Taiwan.
Email:[email protected]
Website: http://www.sanwu.com.tw/e/com-all.htm
Tel/: 886-4-7361447.
Dear Sir/Ma,
San wu Rubber Mfg. Co., Ltd. a specialist in the production of variety of rubber belts such as power transmission belts, conveyor belts and industrial rubber products etc,is established in the year of 1946 in Taiwan. Following Company’s Principals, Sincerity,Courtesy, Responsibility and Creativity, and Quality Policy,we offer superior products & services to meet customer’s satisfactory at reasonable prices and keep running forward.
We have reached big sales volume of industrial rubber products in the united State of America/Canada and now trying to penetrate the United Kingdom and European market. Quiet soon we shall open our representative offices or authorized sales centers in the United Kingdom and therefore we are currently looking for people who will assist us in establishing a new distribution network there.The fact is that despite the UK market is new for us we already have regular clients also speaks for itself.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FOR US:
The International money transfer tax for legal entities (companies) in Taiwan is 25%, whereas for the individual it is only 7%.There is no sense for us to work this way, while tax for international money transfer made by a private individual is 7% .That's why we need you! We need agents to receive payment for our industrial rubber products in bank wire transfers and to resend the money to us via our bank account in Taiwan while the tax shall be 7% instead of 25% which will absolutely favour our company.
JOB DESCRIPTION
1. Recieve payment from Clients either by check or wire transfer 2. Cash Payments at your Bank 3. Deduct 10% which will be your commission on each payment processed. 4.Forward the balance after deduction of 10% commission to our offices which shall be provided by us as soon as the fund becomes available.
HOW MUCH WILL YOU EARN:
10% from each operation! For instance: you receive £5000 via checks or wire transfer on our behalf.You will cash the money and keep £500 (10% from
£5000) for yourself! At the beginning your commission will equal 10%,though later it will increase up to 12%!
ADVANTAGES:
You do not have to go out as you will work as an ndependent contractor right from your home office.Your job is absolutely legal. You can earn up to £3000-4000 monthly depending on time we spend on this job. You do not need any capital to start. You can do the Work easily without leaving or affecting your present Job. Employee who make more efforts and work harder has strong possibility of becoming managers. Anyway our employees never leave us due to our excellent work condition.
MAIN REQUIREMENTS:
18 years or older legally capable responsible ready to work 3-4 hours per week.with PC knowledge e-mail and internet experience (minimal). And please be mindful that everything is absolutely legal.
Kindly contact us on the above contact address.
Best Regards,
Await your responds,
Gin Kuan.

[China Man]

hmm do you guys think that if I posted this in the premier members forum somebody might have run into the same situation as me?

[hayaku]

contact the fbi... i think they deal with money fraud...

[asawadude]

Bad news.

It looks like the fraudulent letter was also posted in the Yahoo and Lycos job search websites, also bearing your company name. Do a google search on your company name and you'll see the page hits.

Here's 2 websites with job scam information. The first link at blogspot.com contains links to government and law enforcement agencies. Note that both sites have already documented this bogus offer.

http://jobscams.blogspot.com/search?q=San+Wu+Rubber
http://forum.scambaits.com/showthread.php?p=16797

You should seek legal advice and understand what is necessary to protect the company's reputation and liability. Getting a disclaimer up on your website seems to be a necessary step. Also contact excite.com and try to get this perp's email address revoked.

[China Man]

Thanks to the responses, guys! It looks like I'll indeed have to seek legal advice, and take it from there. I figured I should put a disclaimer on my website since people should be looking on there (it's linked in most of the emails) .

Google is great, huh?

How can a site like the second link you posted, Asawa, be legal? If I'm not mistaken, that site teaches people how to scam others????

[ekaz]

Is that position still available? I could use some extra money for the holidays.

It sucks that people even do this, much less the dimmer bulbs that believe it. I hope it all work out for you.

[China Man]

Originally Posted by ekaz

Is that position still available? I could use some extra money for the holidays.

I would like a position like that myself!!! sign me up!!!!

[rayxi]

Forward the email to [email protected]. You should copy/paste the email headers into your email because they will be lost when you forward the original email. Good luck Jon.

[China Man]

Originally Posted by rayxi

Forward the email to [email protected]. You should copy/paste the email headers into your email because they will be lost when you forward the original email. Good luck Jon.

Thanks Ray !!! Going to do that right now

[China Man]

any more advice ? I'm lost ..